| Description |
xv, 1024 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Harvard University Press reference library
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Philosophy. The philosopher -- Images of the world -- Myth and knowledge -- The question of being -- Epistemology -- Ethics -- Politics. The statesman as political actor -- Inventing politics -- Utopia and the critique of politics -- The sage and politics -- The pursuit of knowledge. Schools and sites of learning -- Observation and research -- Demonstration and the idea of science -- Astronomy -- Cosmology -- Geography -- Harmonics -- History -- Language -- Logic -- Mathematics -- Medicine -- Physics -- Poetics -- Rhetoric -- Technology -- Theology and divination -- Theories of religion -- Major figures. Anaxagoras -- Antisthenes -- Archimedes -- Aristotle -- Democritus -- Epicurus -- Euclid -- Galen -- Heraclitus -- Herodotus -- Hippocrates -- Parmenides -- Plato -- Plotinus -- Plutarch -- Polybius -- Protagoras -- Ptolemy -- Pyrrhon -- Socrates -- Thucydides -- Xenophon -- Zeno -- Currents of thought. The academy -- Aristotelianism -- Cynicism -- Hellenism and Christianity -- Hellenism and Judaism -- The Milesians -- Platonism -- Pythagoreanism -- Skepticism -- Sophists -- Stoicism. |
| Subject |
Greece -- Intellectual life -- To 146 B.C.
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Greece -- Politics and government -- To 146 B.C.
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Intellectuals -- Greece -- Biography.
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Thought and thinking.
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| Added Author |
Brunschwig, Jacques.
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Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933-
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Pellegrin, Pierre.
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| ISBN |
067400261X (alk. paper) |
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